TransGriot

  This young NFL season has actually made it to the fourth week   It's now October, and we're now a quarter of the way through the 2020 season.   It was also interesting that we got to t...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/10/transgriot-nfl-picks-week-4.html

 I've been doing NFL picks for over two decades and on this blog since 2010.   I have never had a perfect week.   But that almost happened for me in this young 2020 NFL season.  I went int...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/transgriot-nfl-picks-week-3.html

The first week of the season is the hardest one to get right because of all the changes to personnel, coaching, et cetera.   It was also tricky not having any preseason games to look at as a ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/transgriot-2020-nfl-picks-week-2.html

> "AT THE END OF THE DAY, I'M NOT RUNNING TO BE A TRANSGENDER STATE > SENATOR, I'M RUNNING TO BE A SENATOR WHO SERVES HER COMMUNITY, I'M > RUNNING TO BE A SENAT...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/good-luck-sarah.html

As many of you TransGriot readers know, I was one of the judges for the inaugural Miss Trans Global virtual pageant. After two months of interviews and videos, paring down the initial 18 con...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-2020-miss-trans-global-is.html

It's been a while since we've had a trans person elected to their national legislature.   In fact there have been only six trans people on the entire planet,  Georgina Beyer (New Zealand), ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/mia-mason-making-historic-maryland.html

Trans Texans, our Mama and Papa Bears and allies have been anxiously watching a North Texas court case involving a young trans girl that unfortunately got politicized by the Texas Republican Pa...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/victory-in-luna-younger-case.html

Considering that COVID 19 screwed up the NFL off season, still surprised that the season has started on schedule.    One thing I'm very happy about is that Deshaun Watson will continue to be ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/transgriot-2020-nfl-picks-week-1.html

The 2020 NFL season starts Thursday with the game between my Texans and the defending NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs,  and yes, Mike Watts and I will be doing battle for 2020 NFL season progn...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/2020-nfl-prognostication-contest-is.html

Yesterday afternoon I was having a particularly crappy day until I got a phone call from the new Houston GLBT Political Caucus president Jovon Tyler that had me singing Ice Cube's 'Today Was A...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/09/getting-another-award-from-houston-glbt.html

Thanks to Maya Contreras for this chart that breaks down all of the early voting dates for the most important and consequential election in American  history. If you aren't registered to vot...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020-election-early-voting-dates.html

History was made on Wednesday night as Kamala Harris became the first woman of color and only the third in US history to be nominated as vice president. It was a night in which the ancestors a...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/kamala-harris-vp-acceptance-speech.html

I was overjoyed to hear Kamala Harris' name called Tuesday when Joe Biden announced his running mate for the critically important November 3 election.  Sen. Harris was my first choice for p...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/not-feeling-white-trans-community.html

Tyra Hunter should be with us right now eagerly anticipating the celebration of her 50th birthday. But instead, her life tragically ended way too soon because of two transphobes.  One of t...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/25th-anniversary-of-tyra-hunters-death.html

Our Black trans masculine elders have done much to advance the human rights of our trans community, but unfortunately don't get the props and praise they deserve for it. Dr Kortney Ziegler i...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/fundraiser-for-our-black-trans.html

We like to say in the Black community that we are descended from kings and queens, but did you know that August 4 is the day a president and a member of the British royal family were born?  ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/08/happy-birthday-to-barack-and-meghan.html

Like a lot of Trans World peeps I was more than a little heated when the women of POSE were once again snubbed for Emmy consideration despite stepping up their acting games and putting in some ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/trans-actors-can-be-in-building-and.html

Seems like the Karen and Chad conservafools are having a hissy fit over President Obama's eulogy of the late Rep. John Lewis at his homegoing yesterday.  The Right Wing Noise Machine hit dogs...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/you-conservafools-dont-get-to-tell-us.html

President Barack Obama delivers the eulogy at Rep John Lewis' funeral in Atlanta;'s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/barack-obamas-eulogy-of-rep-john-lewis.html

Normally the GLAAD Media Awards are spread out in a bi-coastal ceremony that has some of it taking place in Los Angeles in March or April, and the other half of it in New York in May. . The T...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/31st-glaad-media-awards-happening-july.html

Was saddened to learn about losing another longtime friend and fellow blogger to cancer.  I first got yo know Eli as part of the intrepid group of loyal Democrats who in the wake of that 20...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/rest-in-power-eli.html

"Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man. And when a decent man messes up, as we all ...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reads-rep.html

The last time I spent any quality time together with with Myles and Precious Brady-Davis was during the 2016 Creating Change in Chicago when Precious was one of the four co-chairs of the event....

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/must-see-trans-tv-my-pregnant-husband.html

As many of you TransGriot readers know, I'm one of the judges for this year's inaugural Miss Trans Global online pageant We're not at the talent portion of the inaugural competition and gettin...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/miss-trans-global-2020-talent.html

As you TransGriot readers were aware of, I was part of a two hour Zoom town hall on Saturday that was supposed to be convened in the spirit of All Black Lives Matter and was sold to me as a con...

https://transgriot.blogspot.com/2020/07/black-trans-folks-have-been-trying-to.html